Water-supply apparatus.



-R. BAGGALPY. WATER SUPPLY APPARATUS.

APPLIOATIN FILED FEB. 24, 1903.

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' PATBNTED DEG. 9,1903.

l UNITED STATES Patented December 8, 1.603.

PATENT QEEICE.

RALPH BAGGALEY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

WATER-SUPPLY APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,242, dated December 8, 1903. Application led February 24,1903. Serial No. 144,657. (No model.)

State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new itself.

A and in hydraulics.

and useful Water- Supply Apparatus, of

which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanyingl drawing, forming part of this specification, which shows in' side elevation, partly in vertical section, a water-distributing plant constructed in accordance with my invention.

My invention relates to a new means of furnishing a supply of water for any desired purpose, but more especially forlarge manufacturing plants-such, for instance, as copper-smelting plants-which supply is intended to be practically free from manual labor and without the employment of fuel or of power other than that supplied by the water The limit of supply is regulated solely by the drainage area from which it is drawn. It will be understood that this al1-- tomatic systemzis only applicable to use at such places where the natural conditions existing are suitable, and chief among these conditions may be mentioned that the source of supply must be materially higher than the point or points at which the water is utilized. For instance, the water in an elevated lake, pond, river, creek, or drainage basin may be readily utilized for an automatic supply when the smelter plant or the point at which the supply is to be utilized is in a valley or at a point materially lower than the source and Where the physical conditions are such that a natural ow by gravity is impossible and where the intervening obstruction or ele` vation is too great to admit of the use of a siphon.

My invention'consists of a new combination of old devices and old principles in mechanics I am well` aware that drive-wells are old; that thehoistin'g of water. from driven and other wells by means of compressed air allowed to escape in the bottom of the well is also old. I know that an airconducting pipev and a water-conduit have been used before.A I know that an impactwheel is old and that air-compressing maan elevated valley, from which the water` sup*- chinery of various kinds has been used for years, yet so far as I know these things have never been combined as in my invention.

Referring now to the drawing, 2 represents ply is to be derived.

3 is a natural obstruction or hill over, -f

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the water is to be carried.` At the place'f2iisf.`

a well or Wells 4, from which water is elevated through a pipe 5 into'a reservoir 6. On the other side ofthe obstruction 3 at a considerably lower level is a water wheel or motor 7, which is driven by water froma pipe 5',

leading from thereservoir 6, the water from ,l

the wheel falling into a tank 8, from whence it is delivered by a pipe 9 to the placeof use.

10 is a compressor forv supplying compressed air, which is driven bythe water-wheel 7 and transmits the air through a pipe 1l, which extends upwardly past the obstruction and down to or near the lower end of the well-tube 4. When compressed air is discharged from this pipe into the well-tube, the ascending rings or cylinders of air elevate the water and discharge it into the reservoir 6, from which it flows through the pipe 5 and operates the water-wheel 7, which in tunndrives the air- A compressor l0. The air is liberated from the v water in the reservoir 6 at the top of the ascending column of water. This is essential,

since if means were not employed for selparae, f tion of the air it would accumulate at the topf- 'A of the pipe 5 and would check the low.

i In starting the iiow of water it is necessary f to supply compressed air to the pipe llfrom some suitable source orV by some auxiliary motor; but afterv the flow ot' water begins through the pipe 5' the apparatus willoperate continuously and automatically without any power other than that supplied to the motor 7 by the descending water.

The absence of all machinery which would require the presence of a man at the well isan important featurev of my invention and renders it economical and very efficient.

I claim- Means for transmitting water from an elevated source over an intervening obstruction,

which consists in the combination witha.

water-conducting pipe extending upwardly from such source, of an air-conducting pipe into the air-conducting pipe; substantially Io discharging into the lower part of the weteras described.

conducting pipe, a free opening at the top of In testimony whereof I have hereunto set the water-conducting pipe for the liberation my hand.

of the air from the water, e motor at a lower level, a weter-pipe leading downwardly from RALPH BAGGALEY said opening and adapted to supply water by j Witnesses:

gravity to drive the motor, and an air-com- GEO. B. BLEMING,

pressor driven by the motor and discharging l N. M. GRIFFIN. 

